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Benchmarks – QX9775 up to 15% faster at 4.00 GHz.

09:30 - Monday 4 February 2008 by Bert Toepelt
Source: Tom's Hardware UK – Keywords: Skulltrail, QX9775, D5400XS, Octo-Core
Categories: Hardware

Benchmarks – QX9775 up to 15% faster at 4.00 GHz.

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By overclocking the Skulltrail system to 3.60 GHz and 4.00 GHz, we were able to improve its performance by 8.1% and 14.9% respectively. Since only five applications are able to take advantage of the Skulltrail’s eight cores, the overall performance improvement is relatively small. Nonetheless, overclocking still pays off.

In this table you can see the performance increase of when the QX9775 CPUs are overclocked to 3.60 GHz and 4.00 GHz.

When the Skulltrail system is overclocked to 3.6 GHz, it is only 6.5% faster than the QX9770 at its default speed.


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spuddyt 04/02/2008 09:37
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spuddyt

so... all in all, it sucks

Flakes 05/02/2008 08:51
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Flakes

sounds awesome, but the performance is troublesome. if they swapped out the memory, and if games actually could use it, then it would be awesome! but if your thinking ill buy this to be future proof(you will soon find that you wasted your money)

Solitaire 05/02/2008 03:46
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WRONG. This system will cost a HELL of a lot more than four grand.

Why does TH assume you'd pair such a strong CPU setup with (comparatively) weak graphics? AFAIK just one GTX costs a fair bit more than what's listed here, and anyone who'd want SkullTrail is a hundred times more likely to buy THREE. Or THREE Ultras :P And I wonder if Intel will rush out some custom high-speed memory with the ECC crippled? For a whopping price of course..

That in turn means that you'll be looking at a 1.2KW PSU AND a 300W 12V booster for the extra oomph (oh, and the missing PCIe connectors...) And they'd either want to dismantle and replace the southbridge cooler or invest in a whole lotta dampening material for the insides of the case to supress the unholy fan noise ;) That'll bring the price up to mid-fives or low six grand, easy...

Bit of a white elephant, this.

Element2k3 06/02/2008 04:59
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well, the life isn't just about playing games on the pc............this motherboard is done for professional use. boxx, sgi, apple, dell, hp ecc are using dual quads for years...........but we use them to create what you play a year later

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